A recent photochemical study in this laboratory required the preparation of (i)-3, 4, 4a, 5, 6, 7- hexahydro-4a, 7, 7-trimethyl-1 (2H)-naphthalenone (1). Retrosynthetic analysis suggested that 1 should be readily available by intramolecular aldol condensation of (+)-2, 2-dimethyl-4- (1-methyl-3-oxocyc1ohexyl) butanal (2). Precedent for this closure has appeared in earlier work describing annulations based on acid-mediated cyclization of keto acetals' and in a ...
[Beckwith, Athelstan L. J.; Easton, Christopher J.; Lawrence, Tony; Serelis, Algirdas K. Australian Journal of Chemistry, 1983 , vol. 36, # 3 p. 545 - 556]
[Beckwith, Athelstan L. J.; Easton, Christopher J.; Lawrence, Tony; Serelis, Algirdas K. Australian Journal of Chemistry, 1983 , vol. 36, # 3 p. 545 - 556]